Sabine Dramm Boeken

In this refreshing new book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, author Sabine Dramm examines the twentieth century's best-known German pastor and theologian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's passionate life and dramatic death are well known. Here, his life and the death he accepted in resistance to Hitler are examined in the context of his faith and thought, as found in his own writings. This is a book about Bonhoeffer's vibrant Christian faith and his profound yet very practical theological thinking. Dramm explores Bonhoeffer's sermons, letters, articles, and books. She offers her readers an outstanding introduction to the breadth of his writing and the depth of his theological thinking. She also shows how Bonhoeffer's beliefs and understandings led him to active resistance to the Nazi regime: to the establishment of alternative church groups, to espionage, and ultimately to conspiracy to overthrow the government by assassinating Hitler.

Although Dietrich Bonhoeffer's passionate life and dramatic death are familiar territory, this book examines his vibrant Christian faith and his profound yet practical theological thinking, as found in his own writings. Sabine Dramm explores Bonhoeffer's sermons, letters, articles, and books. She offers her readers an outstanding introduction to the breadth of his writing and the depth of his theological thinking. Dramm also traces how Bonhoeffer's beliefs and understandings led to his active resistance to the Nazi regime, culminating in espionage, the establishment of alternate church groups, and conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. -- back of book.

'Die Jahre im Widerstand' haben in der reichhaltigen Bonhoeffer-Literatur ihren festen Platz, doch eine umfassende Darstellung der Widerstandszeit Bonhoeffers fehlt bisher. Diese Lücke schließt Sabine Dramm. Ihr Blick richtet sich auf die Wirklichkeit hinter dem Mythos Bonhoeffer: Wie war das eigentlich damals? Was heißt es, Bonhoeffer sei 'im Widerstand' gewesen? Wie sah seine Tarn- und Doppelexistenz aus, wie sein konkretes Dasein als 'V-Mann der Abwehr'? Welche Beweggründe trieben ihn an? Zeitgeschichtlich und theologisch fundiert, lebendig und spannend erzählt, akribisch und kritisch, aber mit Sympathie und Wertschätzung für Person und Sache Bonhoeffers - Sabine Dramms Rekonstruktion fügt dem Gesamtbild Dietrich Bonhoeffers eine neue, wichtige Facette hinzu. Sie wirft brisante Fragen zur Glorifizierung Bonhoeffers auf, um den Blick auf die Wirklichkeit zu lenken. Ein unbedingt lesenswertes Buch!